Athlete

The important thing is to be around people who will make you a better player. Otherwise, you can remain average.

I think it's right not to 'give' but to create opportunities and invest a percentage into those communities that you come from.

I've been an NBA player, and a black man, for a long time, and I know how to take a loss.

We all want to let fans behind the scenes. We just don't want them following us around.

Image overshadows reality in our league, and there are people who get to believe they are better than they really are.

A few years, there are teams that are just dominant over everyone. Those years are few and far.

When you're in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.

Kobe Bryant should know how to defend a pick and roll.

What made it so special was the city of Houston had never won a sports championship. I think the championship changed people's thinking about their own city. It made them feel like their city had some significance that it hadn't had before.

Mike Brown wasn't about race relations, nor Trayvon Martin or even Hurricane Katrina for that matter. It's about trust.

By the time I turned 16, I'd played more than 300 games outside high school.

I make people pay their debts.

My situation in Houston is like night and day compared to Atlanta. This system fits my game, and the team has confidence in me to get the job done.

Mike D'Antoni is a great offensive mind. He's a great coach.

Timing is everything in this league, and I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But I never lost my confidence. Atlanta was changing coaches and systems. I knew they'd make personnel changes.

This league has great players, and it has great images. Sometimes those two things get confused.

You make decisions just crossing the street.

There's hasn't been a day in my life since I was 9 years old that I haven't touched a basketball or done something connected with basketball.

The Warriors are competition, and competition makes the best of us.

I'm not from New Orleans, never knew anything about New Orleans.